Taking a couple seconds to change the channel is normal. It has to do with the fact that even "live" TV is effectively watching a recording. This makes channel surfing tedious, but then again you've got other options. On a keyboard hit M, or on the remote hit menu, and chose either program guide or browse mode. Either one will let you rapidly scan what's currently on to look for something interesting.

I am trying to install the latest ivtv driver, and am attempting to follow the instructions posted....

i get to step 4 where it says : mv driver/ driver.old

that does not seem to work, also, i can't seem to do step 7

it says driver is not valid... can someone help?

if the mv driver command isn't working for you it sounds like you didn't get into the proper directory. to see what dir you are in you can do type pwd

also in those directories you will most likely need to be logged in as root.

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Xsecrets

Hi all.
I'm in the same boat as the rest of you, My hardware should be listed in my sig block.

All I get is static, no sound, but I do get the overlay showing what I SHOULD be seeing.

I've followed the very specific instructions found in this post, 2.0.9, I think.
I've edited the file from adding the more specific tuner = ... (50 is what I found when reading the file referenced earlier) I've tried 32, 39, 50, none of it or the suggestions so far seem to fix it. I'm going to bed. Get up and check the forum for how to make the little gray (grey?) remote work. (I need a victory!)

The good news is I can watch a norah jones dvd I ripped to disk. so parts do work!

thanks in advance for the help!

jb

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KnoppMyth: R5F27| Ahanix MCE601 PC 350W| Chaintech 7nif2| AMD 462 Sempron 3000| 512M PC2700 DDR 333| 750Gig LVM| DL Lite-On 1633S +- R RW| Hauppauge PVR 250 cx23416-12 revC185

i got mine working by installing an updated IVTV driver... I am using 2rc3... you should search the forums and find similar responses. You have to have the updated driver in order to edit the IVTV config file to recognize the tuner.

If you need further help, post. There are some comprehensive how-tos in this forum that will help with this exact problem.

Good luck!

Well, this is a bit disappointing. I am upgrading my existing pre-V3 KnoppMyth box to V5 and adding a new PVR-250.

I have tried everything in this thread even using the exact 106u ivtv code and I still get a black screen when I try to watch TV. One thing I do notice is that the overlay does not contain channel info and I can not change the channel.

All the channels show up in the Program Guide so zap2it/mythfilldatabase is working.

Any thoughts on that?

These directions worked great fo me. I used them to upgrade to the 115i drivers and used turner=2 for my pvr 250. I ended up with choppy video but After i edited my recording profiles to 720 x 480 & 5400 bitrate i now have silky smooth playback. Thanks alot to every body

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Tag Scott

AMD 1800
MSI VIA KT-333
GF4 Ti4200
250 GB HHD
PVR-250
SB Live
DVD+/-RW

my problem i s that i can only get one chanel, court tv, it shows up only on chanels 3-6, and the rest are static. im assuming its an ivtv problem, and almost all of the ivtv guides ive found either confise the hell out of me (linux noob) or dont work due to the following errors.

[quote="Tazzytazzy"]
Pre:
1) lspci -v | less
Look for your pvr-250 card. Should say unknown device 4009 or 0016. Make sure it says type 85 (or 83 or 82). Whatever number you see here, you'll put this in the card=## reference..

Lets get started:

1) cd /usr/src
2) tar xvfj linux-2.4.25-chw.tar.bz2
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my problems are as follows.

lspci -v | less doesnt list my pvr 250 as unknown. it has all the details and info on it.

second, when i get to step 2, tar xvfj linux-2.4.25-chw.tar.bz2, i get an error.

"cannot open: no such file or directory."

what am i doing wrong?

As for not being able to untar the linux source - You're trying to un-tar a bzip file. Give this a try -


bunzip2 linux-2.4.25-chw.tar.bz2
tar -xvf linux-2.4.25-chw.tar

That oughta do it.


As for having trouble with a 250, I *just* got mine working by upgrading to the latest IVTV, and forcing IVTV to see my card as a type 39

options ivtv tuner=39

in your /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv

Simpler still:

Of course for that you work you need to be in the right directory /usr/src and realize that in R5A16 the file is - kernel-source-2.6.11.9-chw-2.tar.bz2

mine doesnt show up as "unknown", heres what i get for my pvr.



so NOW how do i fix it? hmm?

can ANYONE help me with this?

A search should have revealed this among other threads:
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4779

It tells you how to extract the relevant section of the log files, and one very lilkely solution given the limited information you've provided (wrong frequency set).